A soaker and booties in what I’m guessing will be approximately the right summer sizes.  These were made back in the autumn, when a good night ended with me knitting baby things while watching Call the Midwife, a big mug of red raspberry leaf tea, steeped with ginger and a cinnamon stick near by.  Bonus points for adding a splash of coconut milk.  Oh, and an apple, straight from the orchard, preferably with some almond butter for dipping on the side.  Cozy.

The yarn is Knitpicks Wool of the Andes in “Seraphim”.  From the beginning of this pregnancy I’ve been drawn to this very particular shade of kind of pale, dusty lilac, very greyed down and soft.  Strangely this is the only thing I’ve made even close to that color.  I’m picturing a chubby little babe laying on a quilt in the garden, wearing this soaker and a light peasant top, playing with feet tucked into these little booties and giggling.  It’s a very happy thought.

And some socks for now.  Or well soon-ish anyway.  Made from Wool of the Andes Sport in “Dove Heather” leftover from the sweetheart longies.  The pattern is “Two-Needle Socks” from Debbie Bliss’s Baby Knits for Beginners.  I pretty much hated this pattern, though I feel bad for saying so.  They weren’t even the socks I intended to make!  I meant to use the “Two-Toned” sock pattern (that I’ve made, several times before) apparently from a different Debbie Bliss baby pattern book.  When I went to make these I picked up the only Debbie Bliss knitting book I own and went straight to the only sock pattern in that book.  It has both “two” and “sock” in the title, without thinking too much about it that seemed more or less right.  I may have missed some of the salient details here.  For instance, I apparently didn’t even notice that the socks pictured were one color, not two.  And so I started knitting.  So much on auto-pilot was I that I even joined my stitches in the round, without the pattern ever so much as hinting that I should do so.  I seriously got halfway through the first sock before realizing that this was not the pattern I had intended to use.  This is supposed to be a “simple” way of knitting socks flat, leaving a big seam up the back.  My advice to beginning knitters?  Just learn to knit socks for real!  This pattern felt just as fussy as any regular sock pattern and the time spent on that could have been time spent learning actual sock knitting skills that would let you pick up just about any pattern and go.  Though not in my case since I already know how to knit socks.  But you see what I’m saying.